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General Chaos
Dec. 26th, 2025 10:14 pmK and I got several errands done today, including lunch at Olive Garden. The junior Midkiffs are arriving tomorrow for a visit, along with the junior Roman. Jen won't join us tomorrow, because her dad could be doing better, so we will continue to play that by ear. In the meantime, I have purchased a blender on a run to Sam's Club, so we are equipped for Kade's broken jaw.
I have misplaced the receipt for my new guitar (which the insurance agent would like to have for our file) and have spent a moderate amount of time trying to turn it up in the bedroom and the office. So far, no luck, but I have gotten rid of a *lot* of dead paper from the file drawer for electronics and appliances that we no longer own.
The one ancient receipt that I haven't gotten rid of is the invoice for my very first IBM PC from 1983. I ended up dropping a bit more than $7000 on that once I had it fully kitted out. It makes me feel better about what I spend on computers nowadays. :)
But this behemoth had a third-party 10 MB hard drive, a whopping 640 KB of RAM, and an 8087 math coprocessor. It *didn't* have a color graphics card, as they could not be found at that time for love or money in Chicago. I ended up buying six of them from an IBM store in Houston when I was visiting my relatives over Christmas that year...
I have misplaced the receipt for my new guitar (which the insurance agent would like to have for our file) and have spent a moderate amount of time trying to turn it up in the bedroom and the office. So far, no luck, but I have gotten rid of a *lot* of dead paper from the file drawer for electronics and appliances that we no longer own.
The one ancient receipt that I haven't gotten rid of is the invoice for my very first IBM PC from 1983. I ended up dropping a bit more than $7000 on that once I had it fully kitted out. It makes me feel better about what I spend on computers nowadays. :)
But this behemoth had a third-party 10 MB hard drive, a whopping 640 KB of RAM, and an 8087 math coprocessor. It *didn't* have a color graphics card, as they could not be found at that time for love or money in Chicago. I ended up buying six of them from an IBM store in Houston when I was visiting my relatives over Christmas that year...